The Law of the Land?

ObamaCare's supporters hope it isn't.

"It's the law of the land" was the incantation of ObamaCare supporters, first in 2012 when the Supreme Court upheld the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by reconstruing two major provisions so as to bring them into line with constitutional limits, then in 2013 when Republicans tried unsuccessfully to cut funding for it.

It was a trivial truth employed as a rhetorical club: Of course ObamaCare was the law of the land, having been duly, if appallingly, enacted by Congress and largely upheld by...